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Mostly Harmless
by Douglas Adams
I first remember reading this book round about when it came out. If I am honest, I remember thinking it was plotless and uninteresting, and I was not looking forward to rereading it at all.
And actually Ioved it. I think it's almost up there with the first two books, but what I also love about it is that fact that there is a plot, something that was sorely missing from So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
I don't want to give away any spoilers, but it is also the perfect way to end the series. I don't known whether to count the non Adams sixth book as a proper Hitchhikers book or not as I have not read it, but if this is the final proper book in the series, it finishes with the event that started the first, and in so doing, explains where the Earth in So Long came from.
These books are not long so series is worth reading in one go. The ending upset me when I first read it, but it brings the story full circle and does have a wonderful sense of finality about it, and it ties up plot threads from the previous three books that I had not realised, until I reread this, needed tying up.
Read it, shed a tear, then hope And Another Thing does not spoil it all!
16.4.23 I broadly agree with all of that. There are about 70 pages in the middle where I wondered where it was all going, but it ends kind of as the series begin, only instead of the Earth being demolished, the final possibility of Earth is destroyed. In book one, our Earth is gone. Demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. In this, the final parallel Earth is finally destroyed. It’s bleak but it’s brilliant. And like last time, I am now debating on whether or not I should read And Another Thing…. I will mull it over.
And actually Ioved it. I think it's almost up there with the first two books, but what I also love about it is that fact that there is a plot, something that was sorely missing from So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
I don't want to give away any spoilers, but it is also the perfect way to end the series. I don't known whether to count the non Adams sixth book as a proper Hitchhikers book or not as I have not read it, but if this is the final proper book in the series, it finishes with the event that started the first, and in so doing, explains where the Earth in So Long came from.
These books are not long so series is worth reading in one go. The ending upset me when I first read it, but it brings the story full circle and does have a wonderful sense of finality about it, and it ties up plot threads from the previous three books that I had not realised, until I reread this, needed tying up.
Read it, shed a tear, then hope And Another Thing does not spoil it all!
16.4.23 I broadly agree with all of that. There are about 70 pages in the middle where I wondered where it was all going, but it ends kind of as the series begin, only instead of the Earth being demolished, the final possibility of Earth is destroyed. In book one, our Earth is gone. Demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. In this, the final parallel Earth is finally destroyed. It’s bleak but it’s brilliant. And like last time, I am now debating on whether or not I should read And Another Thing…. I will mull it over.